Sewing-machine gage.



PATENTED MAY 28, 1906 1). DANTZIG & J. BONOWITZ.

SEWING MACHINE GAGE. APPLICATION FILEDMAR.30,1906.

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DAVID nANTZi'o, on NEW YORK, N. Y., AND Moos sonowrrnor PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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mut my 28, 1907.

Application filed umt 30,1908. flericl Hoaosses,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID DANTZIG'," a citizen of the United States, and s resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the 'count-y of Kings and State of New York, and JAoOB BoNowrrz, a citizen of the United States, and :1 resident of Philadel-' phia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPonns lvsniz'r, have invented a new and Improve Sewing-Machine Gage, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descri )tlOZl. p

The invention relates to sewing machine attachments, and the purposeof the inven tion is-to providers gage particularly adapted for accurately indicating the required space between, don e rows of stitching un costs, for cxsinpldflsisdsing the rails of stitch'ing'bo ing the some distance spsi'fion eschgerment until the gage is otherwise Another urpose of the ihvcntion' isto provide a gage swing two ide members hinged to its body portion, sit or of which members may be brought into action cud the other car vied out of the path of the goods, or whereby both of the guide members may be carried out of the path of the goods, enabling the recessed portions or darts of the lapels, for cx-' ample, to be brought under the needle, to continue the line of stitching at such points.

A further 'pur ose of thc'invention is to provide means w ereby one guide is readily,

in adjusted position, and to so construct'the The invention consists in the novel construction sud combination of the several parts, es will be hereinafter fully set fort-h and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the siccom'psnying drawings forming a part of this specifies tion, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding partsoin all the figures.

Figure-1 is a plan view of the bed of a, machine end a portion of the arm thereofi'the needle bar being in section, and a plan' View of the improved age applied to the bed late .ment relative. to the slide.

A represents the bed late of s, serving machine, A a, portion of t e arm of the sewing foot bar being shown in section.

machine and A the presser-foot, the presser I The attachment is best shown iii Fig, 2, '60 and comprises two main parts, a body her B .s'nd s slide (1 mountedior movcmentupon the body bar, the body bar having also move The body her is rovided with a longitudinal slot 11, wherc- 65 y it may be held to the bed plate A. of machine, if desired, independent of the slide, and at the outer longitudinal edge of the body bar a, scale 12 is produced in inches and irsctionsthereoi. The outer or of the body bar is provided with a horizontal slot 13, and s portion of its outer extremity: and adjacent portion of the inner longituchnsl edge is curved or rounded oil as is shown ct 13inFigs1end2. I

A guide member 14 is employed in conned tion with the body *bsr B, and said guide member is provided with a tongue, 15, which loosely enters the slot 13 in the outer end of able pin orser'cw 16. Said guide member 14 has on upwerdl extending flange 17 formed st its outer e11 which is straight, and the said guide member 14 is so formed that in oporation with the body bar B, having its outer longitudinal' edge flush with the corresponding edge oi the body bar, as shown b full lines in Figs. 1 end 2; and also so t at when the head end 10 7o the said bar, being pivoted therein by a suit? 86 it will be in longitudinal 'slinement B 5 guide-member, ifs-is not ne'ededfit can becar 9 riedinwsrdout of'the way, being then at right angles to the body bar, asshown by dotted lines in Fig. 2'. A-projcction 18 is formed upon the upper surface of the guide member 14 to facilitate thin.

its changing'itsP 9 5 The slide C is substantially U-shsped in I cross section and loosely straddles the body bar B and is'cspsble of slidin movement" upon its upper face. The slide with a. longitudinal slot 19,-whioh preferably *1 coincideswith the slot 11. in the bodybsr when employed; and a thumb screw 1 9 is passed through the slot, 19 in the slide and} is provided @919 through the slot 11 in the body bar B into' a; 1 95 suitably located threaded aperturein thebasc' plate A of the msdhine. This thumb screw of the machine; ig. 2 is a, plan View 0 the gage drawn upon a larger. scale, end illustar-sting the, operation thereof; and trsnsverseisection token practicsllyonf the l '7 and also permits the two parts B and Q tobey, 55 line 3+3 Qi fi 2.

simultaneously adjusted; it likewise 91 Fig. 3 iss. y serves to hold the attachment in positiomj H of the independent adjustment of either of I said parts.

A lip extends out from the forward or outer end of the slide C at its inner side, which up is in sliding engagement with the inner edge of the body bar B, the letter being rectangular in cross sectiomand said lip 20 has a horizontal recess 21, made therein. to receive the inner end 22 of the longitudinal member 24 of an angular guide member (3", and said member is nivoted in said recess by a pin or screw 28. he head 25 of the angu lar guide member C is at its outer end and is at right angles to the body or pivoted section 24.. The width of the head 25 is usually one eighth of on inch, although it may be varied if found desirable. In the working position angular member'C 6 5 ried inward or at right angles to the body of the angular guide member Q its body section 24 will lie close to the inner edge of the body bar B and its guide member 14 when the latter is in working position, and. the heady oi the angular guide member C will be parallel with andin advance of the flange ortion 17 of the guide member 1%. The liead 25 of the guide member C is usually of the same depth as the combined depth of the guide member 14 and its flange ,17. I

If, for example, it is'desire'd to set the gzigc so that it will provide for a uniform distance between two parallel lines of stitching, the edge of the garment, as shown in Fig. 2, is made to lie against the flanged outer end of the guide member 14, the angular guide member (1 being then carried inwtordv and. out of the Way. The slide C is then adjusted along the scale 12 to the desired measurement, as for example to the scale mark of -half an inch if such space is to be provided between the two lines or" stitching. thumb screw 19 is tlien firmly fixed or screwed down, and when the angular guide C has been brought to its workingposition, the outer face of the head 25 oi the will be just one half an inch distant from the outer face of the flanged outer end of the guide member is carried by the body bar.

In operation, the two giiide members being in theirnormal pqsitionshown in Fig. 1., the edge of the garment is brought into engagemerit first with the outer face of the head of the angular guide member C to make the outer line of stitching; Then the angular guide member C is carried inward'and at right angles to the body. bar as shown by full lines inv Fig. 2, thus exposing the guide member .14, which remains in its normal position, and the edge of the. garment is brought into eogsgci'nent with the flanged outer end. of thisguide bar 14, permitting the needle to melts the inner row of stitching. I

When a recessed portionof a garment, or a gortionlutvings dart, is brought to the gage, oth of the guide members 14 and. C are can The teases bar, as is shown in Fig. 2, thus enabling the garment to be turned, and. the operator is to guide the garment at such portions by theeye, resetting the gage the moment that a straight surface is again to be operated noon, I

Having thus described our invention, we claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l. A sewing machine gage comprising a body bar, aguidc member pivoted at the forward end of the body bar, movable outward to substantially an alinemeut with the outer marginal edge of'the body bar and inward at an angleto said body bar, means for ob coking the movement of the guide, a slide mounted on the body bar, means for simultaneously looking the body bar and slide, a second guide member pivoted to the inner forward. portion of the slide, having lateral movement to and from the inner longitudinal edge of the body bar and comprising a shank and a head section at an angle to the shank, said head section loci-.5; adapted in its operative position to be parallel with the correspond.- ing section of the guide carried by the body bar, whereby either guide member may be independently moved and the body bar and slide may be independently or collectively adjusted.

2. In asewing machine gage, the combination with a body bar having a scale at one of its longitudinal edges and its forward end curved and a guide member pivoted to the forward end of said body bar, having an inclined surface for engagement with the curved surface of the body bar, whereb the guide member may be moved in one ireotion to practically an alinement with one longitudinal eoge of the body bar and in an opposite direction to a position at an angle to the opposite longitudinal edge of the body bar, of a slide mounted upon the body bar, a fastening device common to both the'slide and the body bar, an. angular guide :ivoted on said slide and adopted for lateral movement to and frointho inner edge of the body bar, one member of said angular guide being adapted in one position. to be parallel with and in advance of the other end of the said guide member pivoted to the body bar, the said angular-guide having movement toward and ye being independent ofthe guide member carried by the said body bar. I I

.In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID DANlIZIG. JACOB BONOVJITZ. Witnesses to signature of David.1 Da1;.tzig:' linear S. CATZMAN, HERMAN U. Srsms.

Witnesses'to signature of JaoobBonowitz; 

